Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 974 - 257: Everyone is Grateful to Daoist Fan Wu!
"A couple of days ago... such a commotion in Ying Tian City, it turns out it was those bastards from the Blood Gu Sect? Damn it, I knew it, this Blood Gu Sect is downright cancerous!" Such news had spread throughout Ying Tian City, up to the highest echelons and down to the common folk. Even the everyday citizens were aware of what had happened and knew the details pretty well.
The person speaking now... was a merchant from within Ying Tian City, his substantial belly clearly showing, his face full of complaints, and his eyes did not bother to hide the disgust. Clearly, he had harbored resentment against the Blood Gu Sect for a long time. He continued to say, "Damn it, one of my shops is right there, and now the place is just full of stinking rotting flesh, it’s absolutely sickening."
"The key issue is, none of the officials are taking care of all that rotting flesh. They’re just telling us to spend our own money and effort to clean it all up. Just hiring help for the cleanup is costing us twenty or thirty Silver per day, and it’ll take at least ten days to thoroughly clean everything up. Ten days! At twenty or thirty Silver a day, that’s two to three hundred Silver in ten days!" At this point, the merchant’s face was etched with pain.
Though these two to three hundred Silver might be a drop in the bucket for him, he still felt great pain! After all, that money could have been saved or spent elsewhere. With this two to three hundred Silver, he could have enjoyed the company of a gorgeous girl in a brothel, couldn’t he? Now, this sum of money could only go towards paying people to clean up that rotten flesh.
The damned Blood Gu Sect, causing him to lose two to three hundred Silver without doing a thing. And that shop... would remain closed for another ten days, unable to welcome any customers. Moreover, with such an incident occurring in that area, who knows how many people would be willing to go there? What if it ends up deserted later on, then won’t he suffer a huge loss? By then, even selling that shop might mean a substantial loss!
Different thoughts flashed through the merchant’s mind, deepening his hatred for the Blood Gu Sect. Of course, he only dared to grumble about this in places crowded with people. He wouldn’t dare to complain where there were few people; what if a sect disciple of the Blood Gu Sect thought it was a good opportunity to get rid of him when no one was around?
"You’re complaining about a loss of two to three hundred Silver, which is actually quite lucky. At least... your shop is still intact, and as long as you clean it up, you can reopen for business," another merchant said, though his face was filled with worry: "If you saw my inn, it’s been reduced to ruins!"
"Just clearing that pile of ruins will cost several hundred Silver. And then hiring people to rebuild it, I estimate, will cost two to three thousand Silver. Especially here in Ying Tian City, labor is so expensive, it’s unbearable!" He couldn’t help but sigh heavily, "All in all, rebuilding it will cost at least three thousand Silver or more."
There were more than a few such unlucky merchants, after all, the chaos caused by the Blood Gu Sect’s prison cart heist had destroyed a significant number of buildings. Of course, plenty of ordinary people were equally unlucky, for their houses had collapsed and they had nowhere to live. They could only dig through the rubble for their belongings and stay with relatives.
Fortunately, that area was under the jurisdiction of the Imperial City Division, and no thieves dared to go there to take advantage during such times. Otherwise, these people might have lost their household belongings as well. Without those, they would have gone from living comfortably in Ying Tian City to wandering or being driven away as refugees in a matter of moments. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖
So... being able to recover their possessions from the ruin was a fortunate turn within an unfortunate situation. Naturally, this didn’t prevent them from despising the Blood Gu Sect. If it hadn’t been for the Blood Gu Sect’s disturbance, their houses would not have become ruins. If it hadn’t been for the Blood Gu Sect’s disturbance, they wouldn’t have been so displaced.
Those whose homes were left relatively unscathed were immensely grateful. Of course, they were not thankful to the Blood Gu Sect, but to Fan Wu. They knew that if it weren’t for Fan Wu, their homes might have also turned to ruins, and they too could have ended up homeless.
Why be grateful to Fan Wu? Naturally, it was because the news of Daoist Fan Wu from the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Qiulong Temple who had killed the giant Gu creature and thwarted the Blood Gu Sect’s prison cart heist plot had reached countless ears. Such news, the officialdom of Ying Tian City dared not distort or fabricate and could only allow it to spread.
Henceforth, all the citizens of Ying Tian City knew that some days before, a Daoist named Fan Wu from the Great Zhou Dynasty’s Qiulong Temple had saved Ying Tian City! It was also because of Fan Wu that the Great Zhou Dynasty’s reputation had spread to the Commerce Dynasty, letting them know of such a Dynasty.
Then they learned that Fan Wu had been mingling with the brothers Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu, which caused some complex feelings amongst the citizens of Ying Tian City. Who didn’t know the two brothers Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu? Who hadn’t heard of the trouble those two had caused?
